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S. Chandrasekhar

S. Chandrasekhar was an Indian American astrophysicist whose 1930 Chandrasekhar limit explained the maximum mass of stab...

Twentieth Century Black Holes Stellar Nobel

9.7 Brilliant

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Bohdan Paczynski

Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer at Princeton University notable for his pioneering work on gravitational microl...

Polish Twentieth Century Gamma Rays Microlensing

9.6 Brilliant

3

Jan Oort

Jan Oort was a Dutch astronomer who established the Milky Way's rotation in the 1920s and proposed the distant comet res...

Dutch Twentieth Century Galactic Oort Cloud

9.4 Excellent

4

Dame Margaret Burbidge

Dame Margaret Burbidge was a British-American astrophysicist and first author of the 1957 B2FH paper explaining how star...

Twentieth Century Women Galaxies Nucleosynthesis

9.4 Excellent

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Lyman Spitzer

Lyman Spitzer was an American astrophysicist who proposed a space telescope in 1946 and led work on plasma physics and i...

American Space Twentieth Century Interstellar

9.3 Excellent

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Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell was an American astronomer who independently plotted stellar luminosity against spectral type in 19...

American Twentieth Century Stellar HR Diagram

9.2 Excellent

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Willy Fowler

Willy Fowler was an American nuclear astrophysicist who shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for explaining how elements form ins...

Twentieth Century Nucleosynthesis Stellar Nobel

9.1 Excellent

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Martin Ryle

Martin Ryle was a British radio astronomer who developed aperture synthesis and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics f...

Radio Twentieth Century Nobel Interferometry

9.0 Excellent

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Richard Ellis

Richard Ellis is a British astronomer at University College London notable for using gravitational lensing and deep fiel...

Modern British Galaxies Surveys

9.0 Excellent

10

Donald Lynden-Bell

Donald Lynden-Bell was a British theoretical astrophysicist who proposed in 1969 that quasars are powered by accretion o...

British Twentieth Century Black Holes Galactic

8.9 Great

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Robert Dicke

Robert Dicke was an American physicist who advanced tests of general relativity and helped motivate the 1965 search for...

American Cosmology Twentieth Century Cmb

8.9 Great

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Gerry Neugebauer

Gerry Neugebauer was an American astronomer at Caltech notable for his pioneering work in infrared astronomy and leading...

American Infrared Twentieth Century Surveys

8.9 Great

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Maarten Schmidt

Maarten Schmidt was a Dutch-American astronomer who in 1963 identified 3C 273 as a quasar, showing it had a large cosmol...

Dutch Twentieth Century Redshift Quasars

8.6 Great

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Beatrice Tinsley

Beatrice Tinsley was a British-born New Zealand astronomer who modeled galaxy evolution and showed how stellar populatio...

Evolution Twentieth Century Women Galaxies

8.3 Great

15

John Huchra

John Huchra was an American astronomer known for the CfA Redshift Survey and co-discovering the Great Wall of galaxies i...

Modern Galaxies Redshift Surveys

8.3 Great

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Milton Humason

Milton Humason was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson who measured galaxy redshifts used in Edwin Hubble's 1929 dist...

Observational Twentieth Century Galaxies Redshift

8.1 Great

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Williamina Fleming

Williamina Fleming was a Scottish-American astronomer at Harvard who classified thousands of stars and discovered the Ho...

Twentieth Century Women Spectroscopy Catalogs

8.0 Great

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Kent Ford

Kent Ford was an American astronomer and instrument builder whose spectrographs enabled Vera Rubin's galaxy rotation stu...

American Twentieth Century Dark Matter Spectroscopy

8.0 Great

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Antonia Maury

Antonia Maury was an American astronomer at Harvard who developed a detailed stellar classification system published in...

Twentieth Century Women Classification Spectroscopy

7.3 Good

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Halton Arp

Halton Arp was an American astronomer known for the 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies and for controversial claims about q...

American Twentieth Century Galaxies Atlas

6.9 Fair